Chapter 50: The Gift (Asking for Recommendation Votes!!) )

After the dinner, Jester hurried back to Costa Mesa overnight after dropping Carly back to her Los Angeles residence, where he had to negotiate more detailed with Lee Kun-hee about the memory order.

After all, this is a contract with a total value of tens of millions of dollars.

This level of negotiation will not surprise the two sides to talk for several days in a row, but it is clear that both sides are very interested in this deal, especially Samsung, which has made the biggest concessions in terms of price.

So in Jester's mind, this negotiation may not be too long.

In fact, he didn't plan to use 32KB of memory on his home machine, he remembered that the memory of FC/NES was only 8KB, but because the new 8-bit host that his hardware R&D department was developing used a dual PPU architecture, so RAM that was both memory and video memory was definitely not enough.

Originally, 16KB of memory was barely enough, but Jester thought about it and thought of Mark Saini's statement that low memory in making a game is the biggest enemy, so he directly gave it a huge memory of 32KB.

As for the 64KB one, it's too expensive, and it's really not going to be used on 8-bit computers.

Later, when Mark Saini was the chief architect of PS4, he visited game companies all over the world, and the biggest complaint of these game companies about PS3 when making zuò games was that the memory was too small, and at that time, Sony's internal discussion was whether to use 2GB of RAM or 4GB, and Mark Saini directly made a decision, 8GB.

After a good night's sleep in his office, he woke up in the morning with good news.

Just when he left the company to go to Los Angeles, he asked his father to arrange the team that was developing the Pokemon version of Takuma Geko with reference to GW's architecture to take out their samples, and as for the pet breeding procedures inside, he had written them before, and he also made a few specific shells in advance.

This time, there are three samples, and the three pets inside are also different.

For the sake of his own bad taste, Jester's first three are the three Pokemon of the first generation of Pokemon Gosan.

Little fire dragon, Jenny turtle and wonderful frog seeds.

The half-sized shell of GW is painted with images of them, which Jester has sketched and then redesigned with his sketches in the company's artists.

He doesn't care about the other characteristics, as long as there is one, it is cute.

As soon as you see it, you can't help but play with it.

Actually, it's a Pokemon.,In fact, it's just a Takuma Utako with a different appearance.,But Jester still added a combat function to it.,Two different machines can fight each other through a special communication line.。

Players also add a certain chance of evolution when raising pets, and of course, they will also randomly learn combat skills as the battle or time increases.

The design of the first version is relatively rough and primitive, but Jester doesn't care, the electronic pet is an exquisite idea, and the more complete version can continue to be developed.

When an employee of the hardware R&D department brought these three cute looking electronic pet machines to Jester, who was only half the size of a palm, Jester was quite satisfied - at least the appearance was good-looking, and the white, yellow and pink appearance was also very suitable for the target audience of this handheld machine, girls.

Yes, Pokemon is indeed killed by both men and women, but the problem is that this is not a Pokemon, this is just a Pokemon pet machine modeled after the pet mechanism of Tuoma Gezi Zuò, only breeding and no collection function, in Jester's eyes, the average boy is not very fond of playing with this thing.

Of course, it's just average, after all, the combat function that Jester added is for these boys.

He played with it casually for a while, and then suddenly remembered that he was waiting for Lee Kun-hee's visit, according to the Korean habit, he would inevitably bring himself a gift, and he would not be so rude if he had to return a gift.

Gifts don't need to be precious, but they need to be a little memorable.

After thinking about it, Jester hit the idea on the three Pokemon handhelds that had just been made and didn't even have a name.

"Let's call it Game-Pokemon, it's easy to understand." It's too lazy to bother, Jester directly used the English name Pokemon of Pokemon, and then added a word Game in front, so that the name of the first console developed by Mars Entertainment, to be precise, was decided.

Then Jester picked up the phone.

"Come to me and take my three newly developed game consoles, and then go and do the packaging, make it as delicate as possible, and I may have to give it as a gift later." Jester commanded into the phone.

Although Lee Kun-hee didn't believe much in the 10 million pieces of memory order in Jester's mouth, he still rushed to Costa Mesa very early, and brought his entire legal and contract team to the United States this time, he had already called his father last night, and his father also fully supported him, if the other party said that the order was true, then he would have to win it at all costs.

This is an opportunity that cannot be missed for Lee Kun-hee himself and for Samsung Electronics.

When Lee Kun-hee and his entourage arrived, Jester led his employees to greet him outside the company.

The details of the negotiation do not need to be discussed by two people, and Jester also has his own legal and negotiation team, and he has spent a million dollars to set up a dedicated legal department and recruited a barrister from a big law firm in Los Angeles with a high salary.

The barrister's name is Howard Garfield, a graduate of Harvard Law School, who has been practicing law for nearly 20 years, and has a very wide network, and Jester offered him a basic annual salary of $800,000 before the other party agreed.

In fact, it is not a negotiation, specifically how to negotiate some details, because it involves a large contract with an amount of tens of millions of dollars, and the legal personnel of both parties are also racking their brains to think of various ways to avoid taxes, and then write them into the contract to make it clear.

Lee Kun-hee was invited by Jester to his private office, chatting, waiting for Jester's hardware R&D department to test the memory samples brought by Samsung this time.

As soon as they met, Lee Kun-hee gave the gifts he had prepared according to the custom of Koreans.

"This is the first 64KB memory we have ever produced from Samsung Electronics." As he spoke, Lee Kun-hee handed Jester a very ornate box made of zuò in both hands.

Jester also quickly got up and took it with both hands.

Such a gift is not precious or not, but whether it is meaningful, obviously, this gift from Lee Kun-hee to Jester is very commemorative, this seemingly ordinary memory piece, is the beginning of the rise of Samsung.

Then Jester picked up a very Chinese-style wooden box from his desk, which Jester had just asked to collect in Chinatown, it seemed to be still yellow rosewood, it was quite heavy to hold in his hand, just a box cost more than two hundred dollars, but the production zuò was really good, according to the shopkeeper, it seemed to be the craftsmanship of a famous craftsman.

The box is padded with velvet, and three very cute-looking game consoles are placed in turn.

"This is the first game handheld that we have just successfully developed for Mars Entertainment, because the time is too rushed, there is no time to prepare a gift for President Li, so I can only use this to make up the number, I heard that President Li has three daughters, and our Mars Entertainment's game handheld called Game-Pokemon is designed for girls as a target group, these three handhelds, I am also my gift to them."

Jester said apologetically.

His words surprised Li Jianxi, he does have three daughters, but he is not a big person, and the information that he has three daughters can also be transmitted to the United States across the ocean?

This made him admire Jester's intelligence gathering ability.

"Mr. Li, you're welcome." Despite thinking so, Lee Kun-hee still took the gift quietly.

Then the two sides talked about some opinions about the future, but at first, Lee Kun-hee only thought that Jester was a fairly good young man with a strong ability to make games, and he didn't know much about other aspects of him.

In fact, there is nothing to know, a person's ability may not have anything to do with age, but a person's insight must be closely related to age, after all, Jester is just a young man who has just turned nineteen.

However, when Jest was able to talk to him about the impact of Gorbachev on the Soviet Union after he came to power, the possible changes in the world market pattern after the reform of the mainland, and the crisis hidden in the blind fanaticism of the United States under the inducement of Reagan's mercantilism, he was very reasonable and well-founded.

These are the hottest topics of our time, and countless people comment on them every day, and although most of them are head-scratching conclusions, there are also wise people who can point to the heart of the problem.

Jester understands the future, so he can make reasonable deductions based on some of the current situation, of course, with reservations - and in the eyes of others, he is just speculation.

It's just that his speculation is justified.

At first, Lee Kun-hee could still interact with him for a few words, but gradually the whole topic of the chat completely entered the rhythm of Jester, almost while he was talking, Lee Kun-hee was listening.

And Li Jianxi nodded again and again from time to time, obviously quite agreeing.

Although these are just some idle and empty topics, Lee Kun-hee can still feel that Jester, a young man, has a grasp of the world situation, which is not at all an ability that a young man of this age can have.

"This person has no limit in the future." This is the evaluation made by Lee Kun-hee from the bottom of his heart.

"I have the same point of view as Chairman Lee, and I also think that Samsung's future is in consumer electronics, and it is feasible to vigorously develop the electronics industry, but now the rulers in this area are Japan and the United States, and it is not easy for you to catch up and surpass them." Jester bluntly told Lee Kun-hee about the other party's ambitions now.

Let Samsung Electronics surpass Sony, Panasonic, these consumer electronics giants, and become the world's first.

Maybe no one will believe it, but this is the ambition of a second-rate electronics company that has just made 64KDRAM and just made the first color TV set a few years ago.

Isn't it a bit whimsical?

But Jester knew what kind of courage and ability the middle-aged man sitting in front of him had.

He knew the determination of a man who had come to the conclusion that only 'the first can survive' such a cruel law of competition.

Lee Kun-hee's somewhat stereotyped face didn't show any expression, he didn't deny Jester's statement, just sighed and said, "It's too hard." ”

The technological generation gap between them and Japan is too great, and if there is no extremely special situation, then they will not have the opportunity to complete this idea, and the technological blockade is like a tight spell firmly on Samsung's head.

If it weren't for Japan's technological blockade, they wouldn't have taken so long to make their first color TV.

"yes, it's too hard." Jester didn't know that if it weren't for the financial turmoil in the 90s, which caused Japanese companies to suffer heavy losses, and Samsung directly hollowed out the technology groups of many large Japanese enterprises, it would not have been possible for Samsung to rise like a rocket in the new century.

Time also, life also.

At this time, Jester glanced at Li Jianxi, and the middle-aged man's eyes did not show the slightest look of discouragement, but were as firm as ever.

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